On 23 Oct 2006 15:57:50 -0700, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

Can it be? The entire inventory of NOAA charts now available for about
what we used to pay for one or two paper charts? If so, that would be
great.

Why would you pay $30 or $40 when you can download the exact same
charts for free?

*That* (free) is about as affordable as you can get. :-)

http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/download.htm